Singularity Law

When I began practicing in the field of computer law (a quaint term today), a good computer lawyer had to know contract law, and some tax law — and that was pretty much all. Patents were available for hardware, but not software; the Copyright Office still had its doubts about the copyrightability of computer programs; [...]

I have written about my law school’s evolving summer program in London (starting in 2009) on International Information Technology Law several time over the last year. (See here and here.) There have been a few wrinkles that had to be ironed out, but I am pleased to announce that the program has been finalized and [...]

Teaching a course of technology contract drafting, I am often confronted with students who wonder why we spend so much time on the minutiae. The common question is “Does any of this really matter?” While I assure them that it does, there are not a lot of good, practical examples to show them. [...]

This year, for the first time, I offered a course for law students on drafting and negotiating technology agreements. While a few students had drafted contracts before, most of them were lucky to have read a couple of contracts (such as an apartment lease and an auto purchase agreement). Although they had all taken contract [...]